Peter York Quotes

5 Sourced Quotes

In the Golden Age, that is the 1970s, the Phoney Wars were... style wars... Style became a weapon to forge your own legend. Style started to be accessible in a quite unprecedented way.

Peter York

The eighties are a long story about fun, greed and money. The eighties are what happened when what looked like the majority went out and took what the minority had previously thought of as its own. It was a bloodless revolution.

Peter York

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

Peter York

One of the less agreeable aspects of the communications age was the message T-shirt. Lacking in charisma? Get a message, get a T-shirt, get a brand. We became a nation of sandwich boards.

Peter York

Hooray Henries are aged between 18 and 30; main interest, getting drunk together; ambition, if ambitious: to get drunk enough to do some crazy thing which will go down in the Hooray annals as a Historic Act of Hilarity.

Peter York

Peter York

Peter York

Born: 1943 (age 81)

Bio: Peter York is a British management consultant, author and broadcaster best known for writing Harpers & Queen's The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook with Ann Barr.

Known for:

Authenticity is a Con: (Provocations) (2014)
Dictators' Homes (2005)
The Blue Riband: The Piccadilly Line (2013)

Peter York on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quote

British Journalist Quotes

Journalist Quotes

20th-century Journalist Quotes